Cookie Monster cupcakes

Cookie Monster cupcakes

These chocolate flavoured Cookie Monster cupcakes will delight your Sesame Street loving pre-schooler. They are perfect to take to school for birthdays or even just to delight your little guests at your next birthday party.

serves: 10|
prep:
0:30|
cook
0:20

ingredients

1 quantity chocolate cupcakes

200g butter, softened

2 1/2 cups icing mixture

2 tsp vanilla extract

blue food colouring

1 tbsp milk

1 pkt white marshmallows

1 tube black writing icing

12 chocolate chip cookies (1/2 per monster with a few for breakage)

method

Using an electric mixer, whip the butter until it is pale. This will take at least 5 minutes on high.

Gradually add in the icing mixture and vanilla until well combined.

With the mixer running, add in food colouring until you get to the Cookie Monster colour. This may be a lot if you are using liquid food colouring or a little if using gel food colouring.

Add in the milk and mix until the frosting puffs up.

Fill a piping bag with a fluted nozzle and pipe on icing.

With the writing icing, place black spots on the marshmallows for pupils.

There is quite a bit of food colouring in these cupcakes for the blue icing. If this concerns you, you can use a natural food colouring.

If you don’t have time to use a piping bag for the icing you can swirl a very thick coating on the cupcake and use the flat blade of a knife to create the Cookie Monster fur.

It is really important that you whip the butter in this recipe until it is very pale and almost white, as the icing will take on a green hue from the yellow in the butter. If your icing takes on a green light, you can add some lilac to cancel out the colour.

If you can’t get black writing icing, you can stick on brown mini M&M’s for the pupils.

Experiment with food colouring and icing and lollies to create your own cupcake characters like these ones. All you need is a good quality basic recipe, such as this one for vanilla cupcakes, or this one for patty cakes and you are good to go!

These guys look so cute on the party table, especially sitting next to Elmo cupcakes!

To add an extra dose of naughty, see how a can of Coke can add some fizzy cola flavour to the basic chocolate cupcake mixture.

Kids love cupcakes? Well, who doesn’t! Try making fruity variations with them, such as these strawberry ones that are perfect for Valentine's Day, or these banana cupcakes which are served with a dollop of delicious honey icing.

This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, Australia’s best recipe finder.

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